It's not that he can waste it with a salary of more than 200,000 US dollars, of course, he can do the same, and the three-year contract has been signed.

But if you do that, you guess you're no different from those rookies who play for a year or two and then fade out of the NBA.

Back in the bedroom, Pierce had breakfast and came back to play games, this time he came out to accompany Zhang Hao to participate in the draft, and he had to go to his brother to train again.

However, Pierce didn't have to delay the time, and he complained about it, but he really worked hard to train, which can be seen from the obvious slimming of the body.

Zhang Hao found his three-digit deposit debit card from the bag, and after a while, he had to go to the bank to handle the cash transfer, and then apply for a credit card, of course the money had to be saved, and the credit card was used and repaid, and he had to live like this in the United States, go out with a large sum of cash, buy something and call the police once, it hurts too much, the last time he sold tickets, the other party was surprised that he actually asked for cash, and the loss was that there was a bank next to the Great Western Forum Arena.

With the contract and the debit card, and came to the next room, Zhang Hao said to Pierce: "Paul, go, go shopping." ”

Pierce replied without looking back: "We two poor ghosts are shopping, if we don't go, we will go back to California tomorrow, and I will have to go to San Diego the day after tomorrow, let me play a little more games." ”

"Hey, it seems that I can only spend my NBA salary alone, how much does this check have to be exchanged, Paul, do you think the pile is as high as you?"

"Salary? Cheque! ”

Pierce flipped down from the end of the bed suddenly, ran to Zhang Hao's side, took the check that Zhang Hao was waving, looked at it, and was stunned......

More than 210,000 US dollars!

It's a bit difficult to pile up 100 US dollars to be so high, but 10 US dollars is about the same, and not many Americans will run around with a bunch of 100 US dollars in cash, usually 1 US dollar, 5 US dollars, 10 US dollars, 20 US dollars in the wallet, and the large amount is all credit cards.

Pierce seemed to see the 10 dollars piled up higher than him......

Shaking his head, Pierce struggled to calm himself down.

"Oh my God, you're going to get the money back? Are you crazy? Even though you're an NBA player, you have to have a reasonable plan for the use of your assets, and there are too many NBA players who retire and go bankrupt......"

Pierce had a feeling that if he didn't come with him this time, it would be Zhang Hao, who had just made a lot of money and went bankrupt when he returned to Los Angeles.

It's really a big deal to be a big brother!

This time, Pierce's fragmented thoughts really surprised Zhang Hao.

Pierce actually knows so much...... Wait, this guy has a big brother who is a professional football player, understands this, it seems to be normal, when the elder brother has suffered a loss, he definitely doesn't want his younger brother who also has the potential of a professional athlete to suffer again.

"Paul, that's the ......" Zhang Hao interrupted Pierce and began to explain that the NBA had decided to shut down.

After listening to Zhang Hao's words, Pierce breathed a sigh of relief, in this regard, he knew a little, more than Zhang Hao knew before, but he didn't know that the situation had reached this point, and he thought that it would be solved as smoothly as last year.

But Pierce was still not at ease, and continued: "You save this money, I don't spend your money, I will enter the NBA myself in the future, and I will buy what I want." ”

"Yes, yes, I know, but I'm in the NBA, so we've got to go buy a nice dress, right? You have to buy a gift for your aunt, right? ”

"That's okay, you wait, I'll give my brother a call...... Do you think the Nets will help us pay for the phone? ”

“…… I think so......"

……

When he came to the bank with a debit card and cashed the check, Zhang Hao originally thought that he wanted his two high school students, who were dressed very poorly, to go to the bank and be looked down upon, and then use the check to pretend to be forced, but as a result, people knew him......

Live across the United States! Ninth pick rookie!

At the NBA Draft held in New York, many people in this city know him as a Chinese high school student, at least, many people will remember him in a short period of time, of course, it is not necessary after a long time, there are so many rookies every year.

After entering the bank, the sharp-eyed manager took Zhang Hao and Pierce to the VIP lounge, and the matter was done in three or two clicks, they only needed to drink coffee and wait.

Since the era of the magic bird, in recent years, NBA players have all become high-income groups, even if they are base-salary players, as long as they have a guaranteed contract, the annual salary is more than 300,000 US dollars, and the first-round rookie has a guaranteed contract since the collective bargaining agreement in 1988...... Of course, during the contract or when there is still money in the account.

After getting their credit cards, Zhang Hao and Pierce took a taxi to a mall and bought some things.

Zhang Hao thinks that money, things outside the body, have to be used when they should be used, but Pierce resolutely denied Zhang Hao's rules, and the two only spent a few hundred dollars to buy clothes, and they bought clothes that they usually wear, not the kind of clothes that Zhang Hao wants that they can't usually wear; The gift he bought wasn't expensive, but a beautiful dress that Pierce had heard his mother talk about.

went out with the pride of "throwing money", and it cost more than 1,000 US dollars to get it done......

However, after buying things, Zhang Hao's impulse of "how should I spend my money when I have money" also subsided.

Thanks to Pierce, otherwise he Zhang Hao would have become an upstart in the eyes of others.

I went back to the hotel with a few shopping bags, ready to put my things away and go to lunch, this time it was definitely not to eat pizza, to eat a good meal, this Pierce didn't think Zhang Hao was wasteful, it was a waste to buy things that I didn't need, eat, I had to eat well.

But as soon as I walked into the hotel lobby, I saw several acquaintances, and there were also cameras.

Xu Jicheng was only in his 30s, and he felt that he had gray hair, and when he saw Zhang Hao, he hurriedly walked up and said with a resentful face: "Aix, I've been waiting for you so hard......"

How penetrating is the expression of a man in his thirties with thick eyebrows, a Chinese face, and a thin mustache?

Zhang Hao felt it again.

Seeing Xu Jicheng, he suddenly remembered, yesterday, before the draft, he accepted an exclusive interview with the imperial court, at that time he said that his goal was to be selected in the first round, and then made an appointment to be interviewed again after the draft, and the result was ......

He is like Fan Jinzhong, except that he is not crazy...... It's no different from Hele being crazy, he can't speak clearly, so he decided to interview this morning, but he signed the contract and was so excited that he forgot about it.

Fortunately, it's daytime in New York, and it's night in China, as long as the daytime interview is finished, the domestic news can still be broadcast as usual tomorrow morning, and there will be no delay.

Anyway, the interview was carried out smoothly, far away in a foreign country, Xu Jicheng is already very satisfied, it is not easy for everyone to mix abroad these years, he can think of how much suffering Zhang Hao, a Chinese student, has endured in the United States and how hard he needs to work to successfully enter the NBA.

As a young basketball player in China, although Xu Jicheng cannot become a professional basketball player, he also wants to help Chinese basketball in his own way.

Thinking that Zhang Hao is alone in the world's top basketball circle in the United States, there are still some guys in China who don't do anything and want to stumble, and the layman is in charge of the insider, and he found that there are domestic players who are not organized by them, and he still wants to suppress Zhang Hao's popularity in China......

Although the Blue Association can also give face if it says hello to the Xinhua News Agency, but if it doesn't give it, the Blue Association has nothing to do, and the Xinhua News Agency Sports News Department does not plan to give face this time.

Therefore, after Zhang Hao was selected by the 9th pick last night, he was a little neutral, Xinhua News Agency and the Imperial Court Sports Station did not send it back to China, but thought that Zhang Hao was too busy after being selected, and postponed it to the next day to conduct an exclusive interview, and last night only reported that Zhang Hao was selected in the 9th pick.

Zhang Hao's side, he really felt that he was not doing right, and invited Xu Jicheng and his party to have lunch, Xu Jicheng couldn't shirk it, thinking that Zhang Hao was rich anyway, and it was nothing to eat, so he went to eat, his salary, in addition to the reimbursement of the normal travel expenses out of the unit, was not distressed, and he was really distressed to have a meal in the United States.

After lunch, Pierce went back to the hotel, and Zhang Hao, Xinhua News Agency, and the Imperial Court Station came to Madison Square Garden again for an interview.

After the interview was ready, the camera began to video, and Xu Jicheng said a lot about Zhang Hao being selected, which geniuses were overtaken by the ninth pick, and how rare it was to be selected in the high school draft...... After waiting for things, the interview began and asked, "You are the first Asian to be drafted in the first round of the NBA, why did you choose to skip college to enter the NBA?" I've heard that there are more than a dozen top universities that have invited you to join. ”

Xu Jicheng directly expanded China into Asia, which Zhang Hao can understand...... Compared with the draft, you still need to be low-key, but now Zhang Hao is not low-key, and said directly: "Good horses don't eat grass, I also applied to join those universities before, but they refused, they all play basketball, and playing in the NBA is more attractive to me." ”

"Drafted with the 9th pick, what are your goals when you join the Nets?"

"Gain a foothold in the NBA and find my place."

There is no floating, down-to-earth feeling, Xu Jicheng's impression of Zhang Hao is a little better, and he continued to ask: "There is a high probability that the NBA will be suspended this summer, there are reports that the Las Vegas Summer League has been canceled, and the Orlando Summer League may also be canceled, can you reveal your plans for this summer?" Are you ready to go back to your home country and take a break? ”

'I'm not going back this summer, I want to train hard this summer, polish my skills, try to get regular playing time as soon as possible next season, and I need to think about where to go to university and communicate with the school, because I can't study in school for a long time and rest is too much of a luxury for me.

"Do you have a focus on domestic basketball? Do you think there are any players in the country who could make it to the NBA? ”

"Players who enter the NBA, I think there will be soon, we have also had players who have been drafted by NBA players before, although it is the third round, but there is also a chance, but unfortunately he suffered a major injury at the age of 21, unfortunately he did not join the Hawks.

I think a lot of talented players in China have entered the professional arena too early, playing professionally at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they are too prone to injury, and if they could, I think they could have the opportunity to try out in the youth academies in Europe and universities in the United States...... For example, Wang Zhizhi, he is a few months younger than me, but he has been able to make great contributions to the national team, and if the country can let him go to the United States to play in the NCAA for a few years, I think he can enter the NBA very smoothly......"

This suggestion, Xu Jicheng thinks it is reliable, the NCAA does not pay much attention in China, or the domestic does not know that the level of the NCAA basketball tournament is enough to be called the world's second basketball league, and the Basketball Association is not willing to admit this, if there are domestic players who enter the NBA to make this suggestion...... It's just that this suggestion is suggested by a player who skips college and joins the NBA directly, how to look at it is not convincing......

The interview was very pleasant and smooth, and the questions to be asked by the Xinhua News Agency and the Imperial Court were not malicious questions, and soon, the 10-minute interview was over, and the people from both media had to go back to China to transmit the information back to China to prepare for tomorrow's report.

Zhang Hao's side, back to the hotel, and Pierce fought tank battles and Contra with Pierce...... Tomorrow I will return to Los Angeles, and after that, I will have to go my separate ways, and I don't have much time to spare.

At noon, the NBA and the players' union announced that due to the failure of negotiations to modify the agreement, both sides chose to activate the "force majeure interruption of the collective bargaining agreement", and the NBA began to shut down from 0:00 a.m. on July 1.

Zhang Hao, along with Pierce and Aprile Clarke, who came to pick them up, came to the Great Western Forum arena and saw that the Lakers had begun to remove their player posters above the main entrance of the arena and began to prepare for the shutdown.

"It's a shame that you've just been in the NBA and it's been a big delay in using the summer league to adapt to the NBA-level game." Seeing this, April-Clark said that she had also dreamed of becoming a professional athlete, but since her junior year of high school, when she turned 17 and can no longer compete in the junior category, she knows how different adult sports are from student sports.

"Yes......" Zhang Hao also felt that it was quite delayed, if he could use the summer league to know what the situation was like for players such as rookies, drafts, and development leagues, it would obviously be of great help to the rookie season.

The summer league will only play for ten days at most, and it will not delay training, and there will be opportunities for actual combat.

"Let's go, Aix, one day, I'll be playing in this arena! Will you come along? ”

"In '99, the Lakers are going to move downtown, and it is said that the location has been chosen, and the Los Angeles Coliseum Company and Anschutz Entertainment Group are spending money, and it seems that the Clippers are going to move in as well, which team do you mean?"

"......" Pierce looked at Zhang Hao, wanting to strangle this bastard!

April-Clark laughed on the side, and Zhang Hao would always stab Pierce when he talked about his dreams.

"April, let's go, pick the most expensive restaurant, I'm going to eat Ax out tonight!"

Pierce is ready to be angry! Flower grief and indignation for appetite!

"You're losing weight, and you want to eat it back in one meal after losing a month?"

"April, don't stop me! I'm going to beat him up......"

……

There was a lot of noise, and a sumptuous dinner became the last dinner for the three of them after graduating from high school, and they had already graduated from high school when Zhang Hao went to trial training in early June.

Now, it's really going their separate ways, preparing for the NCAA, preparing for the NBA, preparing for being a drama actor......

Everyone is imagining their future in the chat, and although they know that the road ahead is difficult, they are full of hope that a teenager should have.

The next day, Pierce flew to San Diego, April-Clark returned to the training camp, and Zhang Hao stayed in the apartment.

The players' union was contacted to send the agent recruitment information to their channel, and Pierce's mother was asked to help him make an interview appointment, and he was ready to train while waiting to sign an agent.

"Auntie, please leave the matter of the agent's appointment, by the way, I still have to call my dad and say something."

"Do you want your father's bank account to send money back to your father?"

"How do you know?" He was really going to call back to Los Angeles to ask Zhang Hao, and then go to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Los Angeles to transfer money back.

"Your father called yesterday, let me tell you, keep the money for yourself, spend the money on training and physical, don't call him back if you're okay, and call him when you have a stable playing time in the NBA."

“……”

Zhang Hao felt that this father was really strong, and when he asked for money, no matter what the situation at home was, he would immediately raise the money and call.

Fortunately, the most difficult stage of the soft sister currency being forced to appreciate and the domestic and foreign trade business has passed, and the situation at home is much better, but it can't be easily taken out for 350,000 US dollars like back then.

Zhang Hao also extinguished this idea for the time being, it is true that there are many places to spend money this summer, and when the shutdown ends and goes to Rutherford Town, New Jersey, the cost of renting a house will not be less, if the start goes well, maybe you will have to buy a house, and the housing prices in New Jersey have been very strong, and it is worth buying.

The agent waited for the other party to contact, and then the interview was done, and in the afternoon, Zhang Hao came to Inglewood High School.

As he expected, it was impossible for the school to refuse him to continue training here in the summer, and also helped him contact a student who needed a work-study job to be a caddy, of course, he had to pay his own salary of 7.5 US dollars per hour, which is the hourly salary of American high school students, and there is legal protection, but it cannot exceed this amount, otherwise it will be very troublesome to be found out if he is studying in college.

It took an hour to warm up, which is a more professional warm-up that Zhang Hao learned at the Adidas training camp, and although he is still young, he has begun to try his best to move every muscle and joint like a veteran to avoid injury in training.

After finishing the warm-up session, Zhang Hao's heart moved, and the subtitle prompt came.

"Is it certain that the host will use a top-level static confrontation (growth card) against the special contracted player Zhang Hao?"

Zhang Hao silently confirmed in his heart, and the content of the subtitles had changed.

"When Zhang Hao, a special contracted player, conducts strength training, his static strength training comprehension ability is greatly improved, and it will be easier to understand his physical condition, better understand what he needs to train next, muscle absorption efficiency, digestive system absorption efficiency, and body recovery ability...... The efficiency of static strength training was greatly improved, until the static confrontation evaluation was increased to 90. ”

Looking at this prompt, combined with the experience of using the CIC long card last time, Zhang Hao knew that with this card, the training will definitely not only increase static strength, if the training can also improve explosive power, etc., there will definitely be more or less improvement, of course, the content improvement for training is the main thing, and the improvement in other aspects will only be just practiced, or if you want to practice static strength, you need to practice something.

Another point, last time Zhang Hao used the CIC growth card, he found that he not only improved the evaluation of CIC, but also became more proficient in practicing CIC, if he wants to teach others how to practice CIC, he can definitely do it!

This may be another role of the growth card, which gives him more advantages when he is a coach, he not only knows how to practice, but he has also practiced, and, from another point of view, this growth card, cultivating players, is not only training players to play, but also considering for players after retirement, the best career after players retire must be coaches or trainers, and continue to shine in the team.

"It's really the perfect system for being a coach......"

After Zhang Hao scolded for a while, he said to the junior who had been waiting for a long time to get an hour's salary: "Jason, let's start, help me count." ”

Jason Hart, a sophomore who is one and a half years younger than Zhang Hao, is in his third year of high school next semester, and is the hope of the school team after Zhang Hao and Pierce graduate, in the sophomore year of high school, Jason Hart played the starter, averaging 12.3 points and 4.6 assists per game, although he is not tall, but his skills are very good, and he is also one of Zhang Hao's teammates who work happily with the school team.

There is a lucrative job to do, and he can train with Zhang Hao, and the school must give this opportunity to Jason Hart, who is not in a good family environment and is the future pillar of the school team, and it just so happens that they are also familiar.

There is no need for Jason Hart to do too many things, help count when practicing equipment, help prepare equipment for use, classify the equipment after training, just help serve and pick up the ball when practicing shooting, in terms of training, it is Zhang Hao who comes by himself, and Jason Hart can't help much.

Otherwise, it's not the price.

Instead, Inglewood High School's new coach, Elvin Hayes, asked Jason Hart to learn more about how to shoot Zhang.

This time Zhang Hao's strength training, from the very beginning, he felt different from the previous training!

It looks like the training is about the same, but in terms of details, what positions should he use to exert force for each movement, the time of each movement and the way he breathes...... and so on, it is easy to judge what was not done well before, and then make adjustments.

The most direct feeling is that I am more tired! The more efficient the training, the more tired the muscle groups that need to be trained!

The focus is on the training of waist, abdomen and back strength, and static confrontation, in fact, most of them are related to core strength.

The 45-minute strength training is more tiring than the two-hour training when Zhang Hao and Pierce practiced strength together!

Obviously, it worked!

However, after the first more professional and efficient training, Zhang Hao felt deep fatigue in an hour.

After resting for a few minutes and relieving his breath, Zhang Hao did not waste time and came to the training ground to practice shooting.

Practice shooting in the feeling of muscle tearing, so that the shooting can adapt to the changes in the muscles, otherwise just train the muscles, and when the strength is improved, the shooting is easily affected.

An hour of strength training, three large groups of three large groups of three groups of 100 fixed-point mid-range shooting training per group, Zhang Hao felt too tired than usual, and he was not reluctant, and ended today's training.

From the warm-up to the end of training, it took almost 3 hours, this is the first time to carry out such professional strength training, Zhang Hao knows that he is not used to it, and when his body gradually adapts to this kind of training, it will be completed better, and it also means that his body is improving!